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Which Seahawk is subsequent to make a Pro Bowl for a initial time?

NFL.com raised an engaging doubt this week — that actor on any group has a possibility to make a Pro Bowl for a initial time in 2017?

The answer for a Seahawks is one I’d suppose would be during a tip of only about any Seattle fan’s list — defensive finish Frank Clark.

Wrote NFL.com: “Who hasn’t done a Pro Bowl in Seattle? Years of success have generated a call of personal accolades on both sides of a ball, nonetheless Seattle continues to husband new talent. Clark, a third-year end, is trending ceiling after commanding his three-sack rookie debate with 10 takedowns in 2016. Film reveals a high-motor actor with a talent to whisk past parsimonious ends and tackles into a backfield. Considering that Michael Bennett has only one double-digit pouch debate over 8 seasons, Clark is only removing going.’’

(Quick aside – we don’t totally get a comparison with Bennett unless it’s simply to state that Clark has already had one deteriorate with as many sacks as Bennett has ever had (10) as a approach to column adult Clark. The two, though, are frequency asked to play a same roles, with Bennett mostly relocating inside on flitting downs where there’s a bit some-more trade to get to a QB and also mostly removing double-teamed. But we digress).

Why we find this a quite engaging question, though, is that it gets during what is going to be a pivotal for a Seahawks going brazen — will some legitimate stars emerge who were acquired in a post-Super Bowl-win epoch to take over for those drafted and/or sealed before to 2013?

The Seahawks have 11 players on their register who have done during slightest one Pro Bowl while personification for Seattle.

Only dual were acquired by a group after 2013 — parsimonious finish Jimmy Graham (trade in 2015) and receiver Tyler Lockett (drafted 2015). But any apparently comes with a small of an asterisk — Graham was drafted by a Saints and already a star when Seattle traded for him, while Lockett done a Pro Bowl in a specialty purpose as a returner, that is fine, nonetheless what Seattle unequivocally needs are some every-down players to emerge as destiny Pro Bowlers.

Baldwin, Wright and Avril all finally done a Pro Bowl for a initial time final season, finale droughts for what were a 3 players left who were a many apparent choices to turn first-time Pro Bowlers for a Seahawks.

Now, a choices get a small tougher.

As NFL.com noted, Clark’s pouch numbers final year paint him as a best gamble to mangle by — he was tied for 15th in sacks in a NFL final deteriorate (Avril was seventh with 11.5). The pivotal for Clark will be coherence — he had only 2.5 sacks in a final 7 games of a deteriorate (or maybe he only has to play a Rams any week – he had 3.5 opposite Los Angeles final season).

Next on a list competence be core Justin Britt, who was a Pro Bowl swap final deteriorate after starting 15 games and proof he could make a pierce to core after personification his initial dual seasons during tackle and guard. Certainly, a Seahawks need another identical deteriorate from Britt to perform their goals in 2017.

Then maybe Lockett, nonetheless as a receiver and not only a returner, nonetheless it could be formidable for a Seahawks to ever get some-more than one receiver on a Pro Bowl group and for now it’s tough to prognosticate Lockett putting adult improved numbers than Baldwin, exclusive injuries.

You could maybe disagree Thomas Rawls would have a improved possibility than Lockett if he can stay healthy and furnish for an whole deteriorate a approach he did in 2015, when he had 830 yards and a 5.6 per lift average. But a approach a Seahawks figure to order adult carries between Rawls and Eddie Lacy — and maybe even C.J. Prosise — could make it formidable for any to put adult Pro Bowl-type numbers.

After that, though, it’s tough nonetheless to see anyone else as even tighten to meriting first-time Pro Bowl consideration.

The Seahawks will wish that’s not a box a year from now, when maybe 2016 breeze picks such as Prosise, Germain Ifedi and Jarran Reed have begun to mature into unchanging difference-makers, or some of a 11 members of a 2017 breeze category have displayed some initial signs of destiny stardom.